Choose sour apples
Boskoop or Elstar keep enough freshness to balance potatoes and black pudding. Very sweet apples quickly make the dish heavy.
German Recipe
Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
floury potatoes and sour apples are cooked separately, softly and then loosely joined. Crunchy fried black pudding slices and slow-browned onions form the savoury counterpart.
Total time
1 hr
Calories
700 kcal
Servings
4 servings
Difficulty
Easy
Why this recipe works
Rhenish potato and apple mash with Flönz
The name describes the two main ingredients: apples grow on the tree, potatoes in the soil. In the Rhineland, this is often accompanied by Flönz, a smoked or unsmoked black pudding. The potato mashing should remain hearty, while the apples bring in a distinctly fruity, slightly sour layer.
Dinner
German Recipes
Meat
Potatoes
Recipe
Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
Heaven and earth combines mashed potatoes from the earth with apple compote from the sky and serves with fried black pudding and roasted onions.
Ingredients
4 servings
Method
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1
Cooking potatoes
Cook potatoes in salted water for 20 minutes until tender. Drain, leave to steam dry briefly and press through a potato ricer while still hot.
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2
Preparing apple compote
Peel, core and dice apples. Cover with lemon juice, sugar and 50 ml water and simmer until soft for 12 to 15 minutes. Mash coarsely for some structure.
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3
Stir potato mash
Stir in the hot milk and 30 g butter, season with salt and nutmeg and fold in the apple compote loosely so that the potato and apple remain partially visible.
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4
Brown onions slowly
Fry the onion rings in 1 tbsp oil and 10 g butter over medium heat for 12 to 15 minutes until golden brown. Salt lightly and remove from the pan.
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5
Crispy roast black pudding
Gently turn the slices of black pudding into flour and knock off the excess flour. Heat the remaining oil in the pan and fry the slices for 2 to 3 minutes on each side until crisp. Turn only once.
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6
Serve together
Place the potato and apple mash on a warm plate. Arrange the black pudding and roasted onions on top, finish with black pepper and serve immediately.
Kitchen know-how
Tips for Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
Turn black pudding only once
The slices become soft when heated, and a thin layer of flour and a single careful turning hold them together better.
Variations
How to adapt this recipe
If you don't like black pudding, serve coarse fried bratwurst to melt the potatoes and apples. The roasted onions remain unchanged.
Replace black pudding with 400 g of strongly fried herb side dishes or brown mushrooms and season the mushrooms with marjoram.
Nutrition per serving
700kcal
66.0 gCarbohydrates
22.0 gProtein
39.0 gFat
Values are estimates and may vary depending on the ingredients, brands, portion size and preparation method used.
Frequently asked questions
FAQ about Heaven and Earth with blood sausage
The apples stand for heaven because they grow on the tree, the potatoes come from the earth, and in the Rhineland the dish is also called heaven and aead.
A hard, sliceable black pudding like Flönz is better than a soft spreadable sausage. Thick slices and a thin layer of flour prevent rapid disintegration.
This is a matter of taste. Loosely subjected, the fruit and potato remain recognisable; completely mashed, a particularly homogeneous, creamy mass is created.
Preparing apple compote and potatoes separately, warm the mashed potatoes slowly with a little extra milk and fry the black pudding and onions until fresh.
A small endive salad or pickled cucumber brings acidity and bite. A further filling side dish is not necessary next to potatoes and apples.
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